Posts Categorized: video

Letters to Santa… behind the scenes

“Letters to Santa” includes footage shot for a series of commercials with our friends at G-Force Marketing. Mark wanted the results to show “classically beautiful lighting and camera movement” to give it a traditional, yet timeless, feel. He re-cut the footage to showcase the results into this short film, which can be viewed on our… Read more »

Catching up…

It’s been a while since we’ve updated the blog, but we promise that we have an excellent reason. We’ve been busy working! The past 2 months or so have included shooting video on 24 commercials and 12 how-to videos, putting the finishing touches on a promotional piece for a non-profit, continuing to shoot and edit… Read more »

Go Far 5K

On Saturday we started production on a short documentary film about GO FAR (Go Out For A Run!). With perfect weather after days of steady rain, it was a great day for watching 1,000 people run a 5K many for the first time. We had a crew of 4 people, Maciek Krzysztoforski on stills, Zack… Read more »

Watcher, a short film shot with Pinhole Video

This short is the outcome of something I have been thinking about for a few months, video shot with a pinhole lens. Well, as you may know there is in fact no lens creating the image, just a very small hole made with a pin. Pinhole image creation is very old and started with the… Read more »

Popping Pills

These eye-popping images are part of an ongoing video & still project we’ve been working on with the good folks at Banner and Blue Zoom. For you techies out there – the movie was shot with the HPX500, and the stills with the Hasselblad H3D-39. (For more video samples, check out our library on blip.tv.)

Proximity Hotel Documentary Update

Dennis Quaintance CEO of Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels We are into the main parts of production on a new film about the Proximity Hotel. Recently we had the opportunity to do the first in a series of interviews with Dennis Quaintance. This interview was shot in the lower lobby of the hotel, where we talked… Read more »

On Set with HGTV Personalities

Recently, Mark and crew had the opportunity to produce some TV and web spots for Mohawk Flooring featuring Taniya Nayak and Chip Wade. Those of you who are HGTV junkies out there will recognize these two right away from their show “Designed To Sell.” And the good news is – they are just as friendly… Read more »

Yakov, Bald Nobbers, and Mark Wagoner Productions

We just returned from a great video shoot in Branson, Missouri. We were there the week after the ice storms, which meant we had to set lights one of the days on 5″ thick ice, but the gaffer and crew did an above all expectations job. Everything looked really nice and no one slipped and… Read more »